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Read the Full Survey Survey of Modern Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut Phase II: Inventory of Historic Resources June 2011 Sponsors: State of Connecticut Dannell P. Malloy, Governor Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism Historic Preservation and Museum Division David Bahlman, Division Director Mary M. Donohue, Project Director The New Haven Preservation Trust John Herzan, Preservation Services Officer Charlotte Hitchcock, Survey Director A.H. Chadderdon, Amy Gagnon, Charlotte Hitchcock, Lucas Karmazinas, Frank Pannenborg, Julie Rosen, Christopher Wigren, Survey Team Funding Provided by: Cover photograph: 149 York Street i The activity that is the subject of this project has been funded in full by the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism with funds from the Community Investment Act of the State of Connecticut. However, the contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Commission, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Commission. ii Acknowledgements The New Haven Preservation Trust acknowledges with gratitude the valuable contributions of the following individuals in producing Phase II of the Survey of Modern Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. Trust Advisor Christopher Wigren has for a long time recognized the need to identify, record, and protect New Haven’s distinctive and representative places that were created in the recent past. His vision and technical support led the Trust to undertake this important project. Survey Director Charlotte Hitchcock skillfully coordinated the compilation of 123 historic resource inventory forms, preparing many herself and editing those submitted by survey volunteers A.H. Chadderdon, Amy Gagnon, Lucas Karmazinas, and Julie Rosen. Frank Pannenborg, Chris Wigren, and John Herzan reviewed each form and provided additional historical and technical information. Many others offered assistance, most notably Karyn Gilvarg and the staff of the New Haven City Plan Department, Andy Rizzo and the staff of the New Haven Building Department, Jim Campbell of the New Haven Museum, and the staff of the New Haven Free Public Library. Gratitude is also owed to Vincent C. Amore, an architect whose works are included in this survey, for sharing his memories of the period. We were particularly fortunate to have Frank Pannenborg, a retired staff architect for the City Plan Department, on the survey team. His knowledge of and access to the Building Department records made it possible to uncover much information that otherwise would not have been easily available. In addition, his firsthand memories of the survey period helped team members interpret information obtained from other sources. Resource inventories similar to this report are based primarily on the format applied in the Historic Preservation in Connecticut series, compiled by the Connecticut Historical Commission (since replaced by the Historic Preservation and Museum Division of the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism). The template for this study was provided by the Historic Preservation and Museum Division of the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism and draws on the Historic and Architectural Resources Inventory for the Town of Simsbury, Connecticut, prepared in April, 2010, by Lucas Karmazinas of FuturePast Preservation, who in turn drew on survey work compiled by Philip S. Esser and Paul Graziano of Associated Cultural Resource Consultants and by Bruce Clouette of PAST Inc. Finally, this project would not have been possible without funding from the Historic Preservation Division of the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. Survey and Grants Director Mary M. Donohue deserves special credit for her enthusiastic support and help throughout the project. John Herzan Preservation Services Officer The New Haven Preservation Trust June 2011 iii iv Contents Acknowledgments I. Introduction . 1 II. Method . 3 III. Historic Resource Inventory form . 5 IV. Historical and architectural overview . 8 V. Bibliography . 9 VI. Resources related to minorities and women . 10 VII. Recommendations . 12 VIII. List of resources . 20 IX. Mapping . 30 v vi I. Introduction This inventory represents the second phase of a project of its creations approach the 50-year baseline for by the New Haven Preservation Trust (the Trust) to National Register listing, as architectural and decorating survey, document, and record resources related to the fashion look to modernism for inspiration, and, sadly, historical and architectural development of New Haven as Modernist buildings begin to age and disappear. at the middle of the twentieth century. Experimental materials and building techniques sometimes fail, and changes in lifestyle focus attention In the years after World War II, New Haven became a on deficiencies. The demolition of the Veterans’ nationally known laboratory for Modernist architecture Memorial Coliseum has been the most heavily covered and planning. Yale University and proximity to New York Modernist preservation issue of recent years; others City brought new ideas and pioneering practitioners include the restoration of the Yale University Art Gallery to the city, where they created landmark buildings and the opening of Philip Johnson’s Glass House in and districts. Yale’s own ambitious postwar building New Canaan as a house museum in the spring of 2007, program resulted in a number of works that are as well as the well-publicized but unsuccessful effort internationally known. Some Yale-trained architects by the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation to remained in New Haven when their education was prevent demolition of Paul Rudolph‘s Micheels house, finished and they, along with other local architects, also in Westport. contributed to the architectural development of the city and the surrounding towns. Extensive coverage of New In this context, the Trust decided to undertake a survey Haven buildings in the architectural press bears witness of Modernist-era resources in New Haven. Phase I to the city’s importance and influence. of the project was an overview of the historical and architectural development of New Haven during the At the same time, New Haven was embarking on one of period 1931 to 1980. Covering the Great Depression, the earliest, best-funded, and most ambitious urban World War II, and the postwar urban renewal era, renewal programs in the nation. In a well-intentioned this period includes governmental relief projects of effort to improve the life of its citizens, the city drastically the 1930s that introduced the social aims that would reshaped its own landscape. Entire neighborhoods of later characterize urban renewal. Some of these, as housing and other buildings considered substandard well as other, private, projects also first introduced were demolished to be replaced with new, better- Modernist architecture to New Haven. The period ends designed construction that would embody the latest with the last of the heroic Modernist buildings and and most progressive ideas of urban planning and the introduction of Post-Modernism, paralleling the social thought. Again, the latest in high-quality archi- Reagan-era efforts to dismantle the social programs tecture was sought. In later phases, the city pioneered of the urban renewal era and the Great Society. The the preservation and rehabilitation of historic buildings overview, with the title “Tomorrow is Here: New and neighborhoods, particularly in the Wooster Square Haven and the Modern Movement,” was completed neighborhood, as an urban renewal tool. As with non- in June, 2008, by historian and preservation consultant renewal building, extensive coverage in the architectural Rachel D. Carley. press made New Haven’s urban renewal program known around the country. While we now see that In Phase II, the Trust has undertaken a survey of sites urban renewal was in many ways needlessly destructive related to the historical and architectural development and that many of the places that it created have proven of New Haven between 1931 and 1980. In this phase, to be as soul-destroying as the slums they replaced, the Trust has identified approximately 150 sites and the program still remains a highly significant historic completed Historic Resource Inventory forms for and architectural event in New Haven’s past, one that 123 sites, compiling descriptive and historical and touched nearly every corner of the city. architectural information as well as photographs. In addition, recommendations are provided for In recent years, the Modernist era has increasingly potential State and National Register listings and other received the attention of preservationists, as some preservation actions. 1 The goals of the survey have been: 1. To recognize and document an important era in New Haven’s history, one that brought drastic change in the shape of the city and that had national, if not international, repercussions. 2. To recognize and document New Haven’s extensive collection of Modernist architecture of the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, much of it designed by leading practitioners. 3. To encourage careful renovation and adaptation of significant Modernist sites. The recognition afforded by a survey and, where appropriate, State or National Register listing, along with potential tax and code incentives, can make such work easier to accomplish in ways that preserve historic character. 4. To promote New Haven. The city’s architecture represents a potential source of local pride and an attraction for visitors
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